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dash
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[ verb ] run or move very quickly or hastily
Examples "She dashed into the yard" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)She dashes around in alarm . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)That absence of an urgent self-indulgence dashed them awake like a pail of water . |
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[ verb ] break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
Synonyms Examples "Smash a plate" Used in print (Howard Fast, April Morning....)Half crazed by the weight dragging , the dust , and the heat , the horse leaped our wall , dashing out the rider 's brains against it , and leaving him lying there among us - while the horse crashed away through the brush . I did n't offer any advice , but I certainly did not want to go_back to where the officer lay with his brains dashed out . |
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[ noun ] (sport) a quick run
Synonyms Used in print (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)This is n't surprising when we consider that over 29 percent of the 11 - year old boys in America cannot chin themselves once , and that English school_girls outdo them in almost every test ( even dashes and endurance ) . |
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[ noun ] distinctive and stylish elegance
Examples "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer" Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques , full of dash and wit and glamor , quoting from the books I read , imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special , after_school class I was enrolled . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
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[ noun ] (telecommunications) the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
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[ verb ] cause to lose courage
Synonyms scare_off scare frighten_away daunt scare_away frighten_off pall Examples "dashed by the refusal" Related terms |
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[ verb ] add an enlivening or altering element to
Examples "blue paint dashed with white" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sport) a footrace run at top speed
Examples "he is preparing for the 100-yard dash" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 7683
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